Jonze Builds Light Boxes

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Filmmaker picks up the rights to celebrated novel.

By Christopher Monfette

Where the Wild Things Are director Spike Jonzes has picked up the rights to Shane Jones' much-discussed novel, Light Boxes, and tapped music-video director Ray Tintori to helm the adaptation. This comes as no real surprise given Jonze's history as a video director himself and penchant for smart, visual thinkers.

The story centers around a town that is forced to survive a 1,000-day winter and wage war against the month of February, which turns out to be a real, living entity.